If you log in to Facebook at any given time, there’s a decent chance you’ll see an article posted by some friend of yours from high school which, if the story were true, would be pretty troubling. But before you freak out, there’s a good chance your friend was simply had by a popular internet prank.

Here are five hoaxes spreading around the gullible social web lately.

1. Obama Is Going To Be Impeached

This is what happens when ignorance and wishful thinking collide. Back in October, the Daily Currant published a story claiming the House Republicans were planning to impeach President Obama. Now, for those who are confused, The Daily Currant is a satirical website that has no idea how satire works. It desperately wants to be The Onion, but it fails miserably. Mostly because rather than posting satirical news stories with actual jokes, they just post fake stories of things that could conceivably happen, but probably won’t. Unlike The Onion, which usually has a “tell” in its stories (i.e. something that makes it very clear this is a joke), The Daily Currant tends to just make things up and call it satire. In this case, if Obama actually were to be impeached, it would be the biggest story in the country, and the odds of an internet site you’ve never heard of until just now having the exclusive story are slim to nil.

2. Obama Is Running For A Third Term

Okay, you may be noticing a pattern here. There are a lot of people who don’t like the President. There are also a lot of people who don’t pay a ton of attention to the news. There’s a cross-section of these people, and as a result, if a fake story about Obama doing something bad, or something bad happening to him pops up, a ton of people will wind up posting it. Obviously, if the President was planning on blatantly violating the U.S. Constitution by running for a third term, it would be a really big deal. Fox News would be apoplectic, and for once, they would actually have good reason to do so. Suffice it to say, Obama will not be seeking a third term, and any article claiming otherwise can be quickly disregarded.

Okay, not gonna lie, as someone who will be 24 for 11 more months, this one briefly startled me a little bit. But it’s completely untrue. A new site called the Sunday Times Daily allows people to create fake news stories for the purpose of fooling their Facebook friends. Considering how much confusion there is already, this seems like a terrible idea. But a lot of people have gone in for this sort of prank, and this one, claiming a four-year increase in the legal drinking age managed to go viral led to some understandable freakouts. But rest assured, it’s more real that the novelty newspapers you can buy at your local laser tag complex.

5. Feminists Want To End Father’s Day

Unlike most of these stories, which languished on obscure websites and were shared by gullible Facebook folks, this one actually managed to fool the mainstream media. Well, if Fox News qualifies as the mainstream media, that is. On 4chan, a group of Men’s Rights Activists attempted to make feminists look crazy by creating the twitter hashtag #EndFathersDay, attempting to make it look that feminists wanted to end the beloved June greeting card holiday. Very few feminists took the bait, but the 4channers prank wound up being accidentally successful because they were able to demonstrate the gullibility of the Fox News, as well as their over-enthusiasm to latch on to story that might fit with their conservative agenda.

You must not live in the south. Though most people who would post this shit were weeded out as friends during the last two elections (racist-ass white country people didn’t like having a black president, who knew?!) I still see the occasional obviously fake Obama related news story.

Or that “inspiring” quote that’s wrongly attributed to George Carlin, usually posted by mommy bloggers or church folk in a douchey “see dicks, I am totally cool cuz I’m down with Carlin, we’re not so different after all” kind of way.

Constitutional term limits aren’t like speed limits. A two term president can’t – as in isn’t able to – run for a 3rd term. He wouldn’t be placed on ballots, and anyone who wrote him in would have his/her vote thrown out.

He isn’t violating it. He’s interpreting it in how he and his administration see it. You may disagree with his interpretation of it, and you won’t be alone in believing that, but he isn’t violating it or the law. Besides, the constituion has been “violated” by so many administrations before his

Most of the ones I see are the false Amber Alerts for a plate (from 10 different states or provinces), the pet myths, or the fake “1000000 likes and they will pay for this kid’s operation” BS that goes around